# Gina Carano is ignorant AF, but cancel culture is really getting ridiculous **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694 "2021-02-11T14:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/221 "2021-02-12T00:22:35Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > “Cancel Culture” is one of the worst pieces of lexicon to enter online discourse in recent years It’s a boogeyman. The right loves their boogeymen, it’s basically their entire platform. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/222 "2021-02-12T00:28:47Z")
> [@Boycott](#): > > I swear to god every celebrity who I have heard that has apparently been “cancelled” have the material resources and connections to bounce back not long after. On the bright side, that doesn’t seem to have been the case so far for notorious right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos. Declaring that pedophilic abuse of 13-year-olds can be “consensual” was apparently a bridge too far even for the alt-right. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/223 "2021-02-12T00:39:13Z")
Its just because his name is too hard to pronounce. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/224 "2021-02-12T00:40:46Z")
Yahoo! Entertainment: [How Gina Carano's once bright 'Star Wars' future on 'The Mandalorian' flamed out](https://www.aol.com/gina-caranos-once-bright-star-202429507.html) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/225 "2021-02-12T00:43:26Z")
Who’s outraged? An actress said really dumb things, over and over again, and she lost work because of it. Big fucking deal. That’s how the world works sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/226 "2021-02-12T00:46:17Z")
I _completely_ agree that it’s no big deal. Where I seem to have gone wronig, in the minds of some here, is that I don’t think it would have been a big deal if she’d kept on working in her series, either. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/227 "2021-02-12T00:46:56Z")
Understood, but I think it’s fair to debate and question the degree of consequence someone should face. It seems like the knee-jerk reaction to saying something dumb, taking a knee during the anthem, or whatever is to say “fire their ass.” I don’t take that lightly - firing is an attempt to destroy someone, in a sense. Trying to destroy their livelihood. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/228 "2021-02-12T00:47:27Z")
Let’s be honest: everyone loves a good bogeyman. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/229 "2021-02-12T00:49:53Z")
I think where you went wrong is jumping into the thread, admitting you had no knowledge of the subject, but still spouting off as if you know better than anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/230 "2021-02-12T00:54:49Z")
I said that I’d never heard of this actress before today. So what? I read up on what she’d said, this time, and in the past, and she’s an idiot. I’m permitted to think that getting all worked up about a pretty trivial person saying some stupid things is kind of pointless.’ This is even less consequential than the debate over Bernie Sanders’ mittens. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/231 "2021-02-12T00:57:38Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Let’s be honest: everyone loves a good bogeyman. Keep bothsidesing it man, it’s working so good for you this far. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/232 "2021-02-12T00:57:42Z")
I agree that getting all worked up over Gina Carano is pointless. It’s fucking stupid to be breathlessly apoplectic over a company deciding that an employee’s liability outweighs their value. It’s moronic to disparage the users of a platform for informing the vendor that they are dissatisfied with the product they’re paying for. Unlike asahi’s ill-informed “couldn’t bother to scroll to the bottom of the page” outrage, I’ve been quietly following this for a few months. And I am satisfied that capitalism has done its job. Public pressure has convinced a public company to no longer retain the services of a hate-filled idiot for reasons which do not violate any civil rights statutes. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/233 "2021-02-12T01:06:09Z")
Okay. ---
**Author:** ![MrMrmrmr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrmrmrmr/32/5828_2.png) [@MrMrmrmr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMrmrmr)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/234 "2021-02-12T01:09:19Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Ironic nuttery. Someone might come to kill him/her/them! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/235 "2021-02-12T01:18:01Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > It’s not the law that needs changing, we need people to stop being so damn intolerant and punitive and demanding that anyone they disagree with or who makes a mistake be fired. Conservatives had no problems a few years ago saying that Colin Kaepernick and others players who kneeled during the National Anthem should be punished for expressing their views. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/236 "2021-02-12T01:22:46Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > On the bright side, that doesn’t seem to have been the case so far for notorious right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos. He’s in the same situation as Barr and Carano. As a gay man, Yiannopoulos is outside the circle of protection. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/237 "2021-02-12T01:23:36Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Conservatives had no problems a few years ago saying that Colin Kaepernick and others players who kneeled during the National Anthem should be punished for expressing their views. And mind you, their protests involved an actual political opinion (namely, that black lives matter and that racist oppression of black people is a serious societal problem). Not a bunch of blatantly false assertions on matters of fact hiding behind the figleaf of the “opinion” label. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/238 "2021-02-12T01:29:55Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And mind you, their protests involved an actual political opinion (namely, that black lives matter and that racist oppression of black people is a serious societal problem). Not a bunch of blatantly false assertions on matters of fact hiding behind the figleaf of the “opinion” label. Another important distinction is you don’t have Joe Biden making public statements telling businesses they shouldn’t employ people who express opinions he doesn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/239 "2021-02-12T01:31:35Z")
And, of course, when the NFL caved to a right wing boycott over Kapernick, the left didn’t whinge about how boycotts were unfair, we instituted our own boycott to try to get the NFL to reverse their position. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694/240 "2021-02-12T02:01:00Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > when the NFL caved to a right wing boycott over Kapernick, the left didn’t whinge about how boycotts were unfair I confined my whinging to the fact that the highest government official in the nation demanded he be blackballed for expressing his grievances with the government. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gina-carano-is-ignorant-af-but-cancel-culture-is-really-getting-ridiculous/932694.md?page=13)